The Princess and the Pauper (Arabella)

Chapter 1354

Chapter 1354

Panic rippled through the grand mansion as a breathless servant burst into the dimly lit drawing room, “Everyone outside has

passed out and they won't wake up no matter how much we shout!"

“What do you mean, every single bodyguard is out cold?" Calvin's voice was laced with disbelief.

"Yes."

Calvin stood frozen, his mind racing, until a thought struck him, “Arlen, don't you have guys posted in the security room watching

the monitors? How could something like this happen?"

"Mr. Clarence, get to the security room now! See if the guy in there fell asleep on the job!" Arlen barked, his temper flaring. "If he

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did, | want him gone!"

Incompetent fools! They've messed up everything!

Mr. Clarence hurried off, returning a while later, trembling, "Jacob's awake, but the cameras are not working."

Fury washed over Arlen. "The cameras are down and Jacob's blind? He didn't notice until now?"

"It's not Jacob's fault. The cameras at the back door and the east side of the villa stopped working. They seemed to be recording,

ticking away second by second, until | asked Jacob to pull up the footage of Bard's appearance. That's when we found out, nothing

was recording at all, the mouse clicks did nothing."

Arlen, for the first time, was hearing of such a mess. A nsuddenly flashed in his mind.

"It has to be that girl!" Arlen seethed with rage, “When did she get into the security room? Did Jacob step out? Or was he knocked

out and didn't know?"

"Jacob swears he never left the room. He'd stake his family's lives on it, no one cin or out."

“What the hell happened then?” Arlen was on the brink of madness. Ever since Eunice and Arabella showed up, he felt like a

monkey being played in circles.

Bess spoke up, fear tinging her voice, “Didn't our men surround the villa? How could Darren be with Bard? And how did Bard come

back alive? Our men were all around the villa, how did Darren leave? And how did they manage to knock out all the guards outside.

There are too many questions."

"I'll make scalls." Calvin, equally agitated, dialed his men, but no one answered. In a fit of rage, he hurled his phone to the

ground!

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They thought Bard was dead, Darren comatose, and Eunice would sign over the Griffith estate to them. But their plans had

crumbled.

“Even if Darren didn't hear what we said, once he wakes up, Eunice will spill everything about tonight,” Arlen fretted, "Darren's still

out, but Bard is wide awake! If Eunice tells him that we're linked to his plane's explosion."

Even if Darren couldn't step in to deal with them right away, with Bard's principles, he'd turn against his own kin!

None of them here would be spared!

“Better to strike first than wait for doom!"

Acold glint appeared in Arlen's eye as he plotted, “Darren's down, and Bard and Eunice are at the hospital with him. They won't

have many guards, and the hospital won't allow a crowd in the ward. Tonight's our best chance to make a move!"

Calvin felt the same, though the risk weighed on him, "But if we fail, it's the end of us."